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The last of the postseason honors have been revealed as Cal-Hi Sports revealed its overall All-State Softball First, Second and Third Teams.

Meehra Nelson (Westlake), Amanda Lorenz (Moorpark), Caitlyn Brooks (Burbank) and Rachel Garcia (Highland) made the First team and all four were well-deserved. Nelson no doubt improved her candidacy with her stellar postseason performance helping Westlake reach the Division 2 semifinals.

– Granada Hills Junior Little League head to Tucson after winning the Southern California softball championship with a 9-1 victory over El Monte. Ashley Murphy had 11 strikeouts in the win. They face the Washington state champions Thursday to open the Western Regionals for the chance to reach the Junior Little League World Series

– At the World Youth Championships in Colombia, Agoura’s Tara Davis placed third in the preliminaries for the girls’ triple jump by leaping a personal best of 42-8 1/4. It’s the third best leap by a Southern Section athlete, eighth best in state history and the best by a California athlete since 2009.

The Foothill League was well represented on Cal-Hi Sports’ All-State Underclass Softball Team, the first of their annual softball teams to be released this week.

Mariah Lopez (Saugus), Jessie Harper (West Ranch), Ally Shipman (Valencia) and Raquel Blanchard (Hart) all made the first team with Kayla Kessinger (Saugus) and Abby Sweet (Hart) also making the second team.

The summer’s starting to get quiet besides the various summer leagues going on but there’s still some tidbits floating around. Here’s a few to see this morning.

Abbey Weitzeil reached the semifinals of the women’s 50 meter freestyle at the World University Games in Korea. The Saugus graduate tied for 5th overall with fellow American Madeline Locus (25.24 seconds) after both took 3rd in their semifinal heat.

The CIF Southern Section has dropped the All-CIF teams for baseball, softball and boys volleyball. There’s quite a few kids honored but here’s a few that were mentioned.

Highland’s Rachel Garcia was named Player of the Year in Division 4 softball. Oak Park’s Woody Cook was named Player of the Year in Division 2 boys volleyball. Flintridge Prep’s Robbie Leslie was Player of the Year in Division 6 baseball.

We had plenty of footage from the San Fernando Valley All-Star Game that we could not include in one post. So here are the interviews, starting with West Ranch’s Keeley Walsh and Crescenta Valley’s Melanie Abzun.

Walsh hit the 1st inning grand slam to give the East a 4-0 lead and Abzun had two sensational catches in the outfield.

Below the jump, Agoura’s Mady Cossack talks about her walkoff hit and Westlake’s Meehra Nelson’s pitching dominance (11 strikeouts in 4 innings). Moorpark’s Amanda Lorenz talks about scoring the winning run, the West’s comeback and winning the home run derby in record fashion.

Highland’s Rachel Garcia had every hope of pitching in the San Fernando Valley All-Star Game. Despite being on crutches following her knee injury suffered in the Southern Section Division 4 finals, she got her chance.

In a nice gesture, Garcia threw out the game’s first pitch and was saluted for her stellar career. The crowd gave her a nice ovation as it brought tears to the eyes of her mother, who sat behind home plate.

Garcia said that she will have surgery on Monday to repair her torn meniscus and she remained in good spirits as she looks to begin the next phase of her career at UCLA.

West Ranch’s Keeley Walsh hit a 1st-inning grand slam and had the crowd thinking they were in for a rout at the San Fernando Valley All-Star Softball Game. What they got instead was a brilliant comeback.

The postseason is all about pitching and few have been more on fire than Westlake’s Meehra Nelson and Highland’s Rachel Garcia.

Here is Nelson’s stat line the last three Division 2 playoff games
– 23 strikeouts and two hits allowed in 1-0 13-inning duel with La Habra
– A no-hitter with 12 strikeouts in a 1-0 2nd round win over Glendora
– 6 2/3 no hit innings against Foothill before allowing a 7th inning HR in the quarterfinals against Foothill. 11 strikeouts in the 2-1 win.

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